Show Victims Victim's Ear Sliced Off As Slayers Slayer's Souvenir AMBRIDGE Pa Feb 5 UP Thirty state county and local police pollee officers joined the search today for the slayer rape of a a. 15 year old bobby who sliced off his victims victim's right ear car 8 as a souvenir Police said that tall taU slender Margaret BankowskI evidently put up a terrific struggle with her assailant before she was struck I down by three blows blow on the head with either an ax or a tire tool toot The mutilated body of ot the honey honey- haired high school sophomore was found Friday beneath a blanket of ot snow on a steel mill slag alag dump feet from a lonely lovers lane The girl had been missing for fori i nine days She last was seen walking from a local candy store carrying a portable radio blaring swing music Her father a steel steelworker steelworker steelworker worker told police she ha have ve veany any boy friends Police were hampered in Iii their search for clues clue by snow which covered the lonely death scene cene a amile amile amile mile from the nearest public high hIgh- way Coroner John M. M Davis said the left side of the girls girl's skull had been crushed by three blows by bya a instrument Her right ear had been cut off ocr cleanly with a sharp knife or razor First tests Indicated she had been raped Her body was a scratched c rat c h e d and bruised The body of the girl was fully clothed in a striped green polo shirt pedal pushers bright red bobby socks and saddle shoes Her navy blue pea jacket soaked with blood wa was found tossed feet from where her body lay face up beneath the snow Her body was vas found by William B. B Snyder 52 2 who was walking his dog along the dump across the Ohio river from her home Margaret daughter of oC Sigmund Bankowski left home to visit a school chum on the night of ot Jan 26 She evidently stopped at the candy store en route and was never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen alive again |